Bob Elliott - The Jays have brought back Mel Queen to evaluate their farm team. What will he find and what does it mean for the organization?

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Never mind Groundhog Day ... Every day, including this morning -- especially this morning in Dunedin, Fla. -- seems like that popular Flashback Friday promotion staged once a week at Rogers Centre. It's catching on throughout the Blue Jays system. Mel Queen, who has not been in a Jays uniform since 2000, will be at the Bobby Mattick Training Facility in Dunedin today. Queen was Mattick's ... [link]

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Steve Simmons is a smug cheapshot artist
Published 7/21/2008 by Tao of Stieb (noreply@blogger.com) at The Tao of Stieb
... When the whole lot of coaches from the 1990's joined Cito on the Jays' staff, someone joked about Mel Queen joining the team. Turns out (as Bob Elliot writes today) that it wasn't such a stretch after all.

Random Blue Bird Droppings
Published 7/21/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Dustin Parkes) at Drunk Jays Fans
... Mel Queen has been hired by the Blue Jays to evaluate the farm system. Judging by the last few misconstrued sentences at the end of Hall of Fame nominee Bob Elliot's article on Queen, I'd wager a guess that Mr. Elliot is blowing this hiring out of a higher proportion than his own blood alcohol level before he starts up his vehicle. ...

Random Blue Bird Droppings
Published 7/21/2008 by Dustin Parkes (noreply@blogger.com) at The AL East Blog
... Mel Queen has been hired by the Blue Jays to evaluate the farm system. Judging by the last few misconstrued sentences at the end of Hall of Fame nominee Bob Elliot's article on Queen, I'd wager a guess that Mr. Elliot is blowing this hiring out of a higher proportion than his own blood alcohol level before he starts up his vehicle. ...

Gerry Fraley Hacks Out Another
Published 7/23/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Dustin Parkes) at Drunk Jays Fans
... In his latest piece of dump, Fraley picks up on an erroneous Bob Elliot story from earlier in the week that suggested that Mel Queen was being hired by the Blue Jays organization to evaluate the minor league development. Unfortunately for Elliot and Fraley, the truth is that ...

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